Re: Perl DBD::Oracle - discontinuing support for Oracle 7 and Ora

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:08:51AM -0800, DEEDSD_at_Nationwide.com wrote:
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> Does this mean the 'use Oraperl' and the oraperl subroutine syntax (like
> &ora_login) would be deprecated?

They would be more than deprecated. They wouldn't work at all.

> I wouldn't ordinarily care, as I haven't used that syntax for years.
> However, quite a few of our application areas wrote entire applications
> using oraperl. Just getting them to plug a 'use lib' and 'use Oraperl' at
> the top of their code to get them off of Perl 4 was like herding cats, and
> took almost a year.

:-)

> I'm sure Tim could care less about this. Personally I'm all for the move.
> We can certainly march merrily along with version 1.03 of DBD::Oracle we
> are currently using.

That's my thinking. Places that have stuck with Oracle 7 can't really complain about being stuck with DBD::Oracle <= 1.14.

Tim.

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> I couldn't support you more Tim.
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> Oraperl?
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> I released DBD::Oracle 1.14 a few days ago.
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> In the release notes I said:
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> NOTE: OCI 7 and Oraperl will not be supported in future releases.
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> I'm keen to rip out the old OCI7 API code to make it easier to add
> support for more OCI8 features.
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> I've had no reaction to that yet so I can't gauge how much of a
> problem that might be for some people. I know Oracle are ceasing
> to support Oracle 7 but there are certainly some Oracle 7 installation
> in production in strange places/situations.
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> And there may be some script/applications based on Oraperl but now
> talking to Oracle 8 or 9 servers.
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> So I thought I'd ask here.
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> At the end of the day I guess anyone using Oracle 7 in production
> with DBD::Oracle / Oraperl has to live with the bugs in Oracle 7
> and whatever version of DBD::Oracle / Oraperl they're using.
> (At least they wouldn't need such a fat cheque book to get support
> from me if they really needed it :)
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> And converting from Oraperl is a fairly mechanincal process.
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> Tim.
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